Photographer, Blogger and Crafty Type
I was invited to make calendars every month with Cynthia, Scout and Robyn. I went with a monochrome yellow theme with the daffodils this time. Every month we’ll be taking photos and Cynthia will add the design and calendars. It’s a beautiful thing. And handy – a calendar for wallpaper on your computer. What day was that again? Oh yah! Let me check. Why, it’s a Tuesday. Perfect.
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I was as surprised as Dion Phaneuf* this morning to find that I had actually nearly finished my rug. Finally! The Year of the Ox wasn’t kidding. Just one long year of putting one foot in front of the other and feeling like the field would never be tilled. I didn’t think I’d ever get anything completed. But today, I finished the rug! I spent just about the whole day yesterday ripping and rolling fabric – the most time consuming part of the project. Crocheting it was easy.
I thought I would have to block the whole heavy carpet by soaking it in the tub and then drying it off in between towels and putting something heavy on it so it would flatten out. But instead, I just ironed it. I turned the iron on to the highest setting, hit the steam button a lot and it flattened out into a perfectly flat circle. Yay! You can’t do that for every crochet project, unfortunately. I only ironed this instead of blocking it because the fabric was made of cotton (I’m sure there was some polyester in there, too) and is safe to iron out. I would not do that with wool (NO!) or mohair (NO!), but piles of torn fabric you’ve had in your closet for at least 4 years? It’s totally cool.
Would you like to see it in our front entrance? You can see it below…
*Hockey Talk – Dion Phaneuf was traded this morning to the Toronto Maple Leafs from Calgary. I didn’t see that coming.
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This afternoon I had a meeting with an employer who’s location is very near the ScienceWorld Skytrain Station. This very Skytrain station happens to be right across the water from The Village for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. There’s a walkway that leads from ScienceWorld and takes you all the way along the water to Yaletown. I took a right before GM Place (it won’t be called that much longer. It’s official name during The Games will be Canada Hockey Place) and walked up to Chinatown. But, back on the walkway, there are tents set up and and it looks as though ScienceWorld is being rented out for a Russian display area of sorts. The whole area along the walkway is filling up with huge tents for displays for Ontario and Saskatchewan. And right along the water are all sorts of Inukshuks. I’ll go back with better footwear – my clogs were not really good for climbing around the rocky patches with a camera.
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Awww….look at this photo of me as a baby on the banana phone…Who could I be talking to?
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